Mary Metcalf
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, March 9, 2010
CASH BAYOU, La. — Services for Mary Lee Metcalf, 84, of Cash Bayou, La., who died Sunday, March 7, 2010, in Sicily Island, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sunnyside Church with the Rev. Jerry Sharp Jr. officiating.
Burial will follow at Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Young’s Funeral Home in Ferriday.
Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Mrs. Metcalf was born Jan. 27, 1926, in Harrisonburg, La., the daughter of John Marable McCarty and Clara Evelyn McCarty. She was a homemaker. She was also employed by Heritage Manor Nursing Home in patient transport.
She was preceded in death by her husband, James Noble Metcalf; her parents; one grandson, Chris Metcalf; one brother, Marable Dan McCarty; and one sister, Lucille McCarty Brooks.
Survivors include one daughter, Carolyn Gousset of Natchez; one son, James Marable “Shorty” Metcalf of Cash Bayou; one grandson, Kirk Cavin of Houston, Texas; one granddaughter, Amanda Metcalf of Wesson; one sister, Laverne Butler of Tallulah, La.; and three brothers, Robert McCarty of Alvin, Texas, Glendell McCarty of Newellton, La., and Alton Gene McCarty of Houston.
Pallbearers will be Casey Young, Butch Cavin, Ronnie Tyson, Ronnie Blaney, Russ Mason and Bill Harrell.
Honorary pallbearers will be the New Orleans Saints.
Online condolences may be sent to www.youngsfh.com.